Isolato sed communicando

Today it is 100 years since my mother was born. You cannot continue to claim birthdays after you've cashed in your chips. We had planned for a bit of a knees-up for the family this weekend, but the Old Lady died in January so we cancelled the booking. Actually, as you know, Covid-19 would have cancelled the booking on us anyway. We are making do with an 11-way family Zoom at 11am with instructions to bring cake.

 What else has been going on?

• Resilience, responses
• In Bergamo the McCarthys of Mayo write and keep calm [above] in the Italian lock-down - week 5. Go Delia! . . . c a l m l y.
• In Barcelona they played the keyboard.
• In Ringsend they played the Bingo.
• In Lucera they get their hair done 
• In Texas they got the groceries sorted - by talking to the Chinese rather than blaming them.
• In Ghana we will get there. We used to sing this at Sîan Croose singing workshops
• In his bunker Maximus Ironthumper worries about folks outside, including his Mum, a bit rambling and maudlin but sincerely put.
• On the Late Late, hozier raising a glass to the dead
• Entertainment
• Sky Brown (11) is skateboard champ: have fun, be brave and do it coz you love it. What's not to like? Hope her parents are not loony controlling hot-housers.
• In Poland Laboratorium Pieśni - U lisi (Ой y лиси)
• More? - Sztoj pa moru (Што й па мору)
• In the Nullarbor there are no trees
• In Cork there is no end of talent!
• On line classes are all up-and-running-amok
• Kodaline - Sometimes
• Data:
• There are enough cases in Ireland to get a handle on granularity of cases by county
• Dau.II asked for a source for rates of covid-19 rather than raw counts: clearly more informative. Hot spots are all micro-nations: Vatican, San Marino, Luxembourg, Iceland, Faeroes
• You may have heard reports that Blood Gp A is higher in covid-19 cases than in controls. Here is the data on medrxiv. Not internally consistent, although statistically significant.
  I R = Gp A but I R not concerned because the effect is small even if stat.signif.
• Ben Sparks talks you through the SIR model for disease spread. Physical isolation is a key parameter for flattening the curve. Includes further links.

Ireland has a flattish curve but could do better [source where you can patch in your own location]:

Stay safe stay sane!